Wider team stuck/obsessed with spreadsheets
Hi everyone,
I need a suggestion, as I recently joined a company in a middle-management marketing position and have started managing many projects and campaigns simultaneously.
My main struggle is the absolute chaos of how other team members, including my direct manager, operate - emails/spreadsheets upon spreadsheets/notes in docs / random mentions on team meetings that never manifest in anything written, but then surface in the form of " I DID SAY IT 10 weeks ago in some random spreadsheet".
Sometimes I struggle for hours trying to compile all of the data into one place.
I use Notion for personal project management, and that helps me a lot.
I have tried to adopt Notion team wide, and our CMO agreed with all of my points - after hours and hours of setting up Notion and workflows for the wider team, making it as simple as possible + having 1 on 1 calls with each team members, showing workflows and how it can benefit them, setting up workflows that mimic their own, 6 months later - wider team got back again to spreadsheets/emails / random messages and turned everything into chaos, essentially abandoning all my effort.
I feel sad and pissed, and I have never seen this in my previous career experience - absolute refusal to learn something new and better.
How do you act in a situation like this, perhaps a tip you can share - where you try to organise chaos, but they simply refuse, or tell you to your face - "yeah, this is great, I will use it" and then use it once and just abandon it.
Thank you.